Mew Definition

Origin of Mew

• From Middle English mewe, from Old English mÇ£w, from Proto-Germanic *maihwaz, *maiwaz (“seagull") (compare West Frisian meau, mieu, Dutch meeuw, German Möwe), from *maiwijanÄ… 'to shout, mew' (compare Middle English mawen 'to shout, mew', Middle Dutch mauwen, Middle High German māwen); akin to Latvian maût 'to roar', Old Church Slavonic myjati 'to mew'.

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• Middle English meue from Old French mue from muer to molt from Latin mūtāre to change mei-¹ in Indo-European roots

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

• From Anglo-Norman mue, muwe, and Middle French mue (“shedding feathers; cage for moulting birds; prison"), from muer (“to moult").

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• Middle English meue from Old English mǣw, mēu

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

• Middle English meuen of imitative origin

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

• Onomatopoeic

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